netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture

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Message-ID: <20130830165550.GA8151@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:55:50 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:35AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has
> not compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken.
> It is time to drop support for it.
> 
> Yes, I understand it is not that simple to drop an architecture,
> and it may need some discussion, but someone has to put a stake
> into the ground. Keeping a virtually dead architecture on life support
> takes resources which are better spent elsewhere.

If this doesn't build, and no one is using it anymore, I agree, it
should be removed.  If someone wants to revive it, 'git revert' works
just fine.

You can put my:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

on these patches, unless someone steps up to be the active maintainer of
the arch and gets it building/working again.

thanks,

greg k-h
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